original description Treadwell, Aaron L. 1929. Acoetes magnifica, a new species of polychaetous annelid from Montego Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies. American Museum Novitates, 355: 1-4. [details]

basis of record Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464[details]